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Methodology:

1. . The portion of the 11 June 1962 tape in question

was provided to two employees, both of whom are professional
' transcribers and native Russian speakers. They were provided

with the background of the difficulty, i.e, that previous
transcriptions. of the tape “quoted Nosenko as saying that
he had "also been in the States" and that he had used the
alias Nikolayey “both in England and ‘uo vas' i.e., in the
United States. .

- 2. Mr. Kotlev and Mr. Berest Produced a transcription
which contains no statement of Nosenko's: saying he had been
in the United States. tn addition, their rendering of the
sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of the alias Nikolayev
reads, with no equivocation, "both In England and tu Nast",
i.e., “in the Soviet Union." .

3. Independently, the same portion of tape was given
yet another professional transcriber, a native Russian
speaker. She was given no background whatsoever on the
problem. Her transcript contained no statement of Nosenko's
saying he had been in the United States. In addition, her
rendering of the sentence pertaining to Nosenko's use of
the alias Nikolavey reads unequivocally as “both in England
and ‘u nas'", i.e., “in the Soviet Union."

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